PART VI
BIOLOGY AND MEDTCINE
(UNCLASSIFIED )
1.
is
The Commission's biology and medicine research program
focused
primarily upon
sensitivity
of varlous
sickness in man.
studies
organisms,
of
the nature
and
of radiation
particularly on radiation
The specifle aims of this rescarch are:
(1)
to adopt and continuously to verify permissible levels of radlation, and
methods
(2) to study the effects of overexposure and to develop
of
treatment.
These aims
complement the
objectives of the biology and medicine program:
means
of
protecting people
from
the
over-all
(1) to develop
harmful effects
of radiation;
(2) to develop new, beneficial uses for radiation in the treatment of disease; and (3) to Investigate possible effects of
yvadiation
on
crop yields and
on development
of new varieties
of
plants.
2. Most of this research is conducted in the Commission's
laboratories and at private Institutions throughout the nation.
Another
verify
be
important source
lInboratory results and
obtained
vealed
of research data
in
the
important
produce
laboratory.
facts about
the
effects
tests, which
information which cannot
The current
and vehicles and is also expected to
of the medical and psychological
new
is weapons
test series
of blast
on
has re-
structures
Increase our understanding
effects of atomic detonations.
(End of UNCLASSIFIED sect.lon.)
Weapon Test Activities
Fall-Out Data on Operation IVY {SE@REP)}3. The world-wide monitoring network deserlbed in the preceding report
has
produced a
large amount
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of data
on
fall-out
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